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Saturday, January 16, 2010

In my constant and frankly exhausting search for Models vinyl and other recordings, I talked today with a prominent record dealer, specialising in recordings from those days, and he had a few things to say -

Barry Earl was owner of Suicide Records

Barry Earl was also personal manager of Colin McClinchley

Colin McClinchley's alter-name is James Freud

Barry Earl co-produced James Freud and the Radio Stars debut lp

Suicide Records was an unofficial offshoot of Mushroom Records

Mushroom Records may or may not have applied pressure on Models circa 1981 to allow James Freud into the band

James Freud apparently had more than a fair share of the royalties from Models, according to sighted contracts from the source

It is well known that money was the main reason for the various personnel movements and eventual demise of Models

Interesting. Some of these I knew, and some I suspected, but one I didn't know. I'll leave that to you to guess.